Album Notes

Massive grooves and a grand meditational New Wave rethink, Umibachi's 'Body Conscious & Joystick' comes across as the spaced-out progeny of krautrockers Neu! and Kurtis Blow at his funky best. Kicking off with the bass-riffing grind of 'Up in the Evil', the album launches right into tight rhythmic grooves that have us unconsciously bobbing our brains to the post-punk motorik of the Tokyo New Wave sound. From the Manuel Göttsching-inspired minimalism of 'High Buggy' to the post-everything future-pop of 'Amiga', Umibachi lets us in on a little secret: they have seen the future of dance and it holds no sound prejudice. An album for those who believed you could not make transcendent, psychedelic pop that moves the head and the feet at the same time.